DoClasse - Magical Thermo

DoClasse’s Creative Director Koji Hokari approached Method Studios to help them create a spot to show off their magical thermo coat which is as warm as down without the puff! Director Jon Noorlander and the team at Method brought initial design character style frames to life by using motion capture, marvelous designer, Houdini, Cinema 4D and Octane rendering. The CG characters were created by working with choreographer Tricia Miranda and dancers Jessica Castro and Nataly Santiago at Silver Spoon motion capture studio. The live action model was captured on stage in Tokyo. The team of talented Method FX artist, animators, riggers, compositors and designers at Method brought all of the pieces together with The Elements Music team to create the spots.

SXSW 2016 Gaming Awards

Reese's Mouthwatering

Under Armour: Phenom

Aventador - Behind the Scenes

At Strange & Wonderful, Will Hyde came up with an idea to push table top shoots to another level. He wanted to build a box of monitors to place objects in a live video environment.

Working with one TV, two LG Ultrawide monitors, and a 24in monitor in the back, we were able to build a box that had pixels extending wall to wall, floor to ceiling. After the templates in After Effects and Cinema 4D were built out, we worked towards making the video splits display in sync on all of the monitors. The finished product was a mix of clean and simple design, computer animation, and seamless technology.

Studio: Strange & Wonderful

Creative Director: Will Hyde

Technical Director / Animator: Jake Wegesin

Lead 3D Artist / Designer: Jason M. Diaz

Designer/Animator: Austin Hochstatter

Editor/Camera Op: Ryan Hills

Aventador - Pocher

At Strange & Wonderful, Will Hyde came up with an idea to push table top shoots to another level. He wanted to build a box of monitors to place objects in a live video environment.

Working with one TV, two LG Ultrawide monitors, and a 24in monitor in the back, we were able to build a box that had pixels extending wall to wall, floor to ceiling. After the templates in After Effects and Cinema 4D were built out, we worked towards making the video splits display in sync on all of the monitors. The finished product was a mix of clean and simple design, computer animation, and seamless technology.

Valentine

Lotto Plus

Following the title Lotto Plus we wanted to highlight the plus component by adding a sense of dynamism and power to the lotto ball.

Animation: Sekani Solomon, Jason Diaz

Sound: Cooper SkinnerMusic Composer: Jessil Moore

Way Of Life

Cleatus Watch

What can I say, we love watches. Sekani Solomon and I were apart of conceptualizing and designing for FOX Sports Super Bowl XLVIII 2014 show open. Our final phase included creating content for the screens in the digital time square. With a very small time frame, we created the Cleatus watch.

In this presentation, Jason Diaz and Sekani Solomon discuss how students at Savannah College of Art and Design helped FOX Sports develop concepts for the opening title sequence of Super Bowl XLVIII. The students developed several pitches, involving style frames and motion tests created in Cinema 4D. Sekani explains aspects of the preproduction process, while Jason demonstrates how motion capture was applied to Cletus using the Retarget Tag and Motion Clips.

Sekani also demonstrates several powerful aspects of the Cinema 4D workflow in other projects completed at SCAD. In Seasons, Sekani developed a flexible rig to animate leaves using deformers, User Data and Xpresso. In a Coca-Cola spec commercial, Sekani used the Inheritance Effector to easily copy animation to multiple clones.

Sempiternal

Sempiternal is a short film reflecting on society's programed fait for ourselves. As the human race advances its easy to lose ourselves, adding a type of layer and hiding what makes us human. We follow the path of what we believe is our purpose in life although pursuing it for "society" benefit instead for the benefit the human race. We accept the path we walk even though conscious of the corruption our progress causes.